Tying the figure eight follow through.What you want to do is you want to first
create a figure eight. So you want to create a bend in your rope. Make sure to give yourself
enough because you're going to need a lot. Then your going to come over, around, and back
through your loop here okay. Give yourself a long tail because you're
going to need it to complete the follow through. So give yourself plenty of
tail to work with. Now what you want to do is, you want to take that same end of the rope that you
you made the figure eight with, grab your carabiner or your object that you're
going through. All you want to do is follow that same line all the way back
through. So following the same line following it. Going through, around because it's
coming around, now it's going down under and around, so down under
and around. Now it's coming down under and back up through. So I'm going do the
same thing, down under
and back up through. Figure eight follow through.
Before you go, I want to teach you some rope terminology that will assist you in
tying your future knots. So let's start with this rope. The end we begin to start
our knot on that's known as the working end or running end. The opposite end is
known as a standing end. Now you may also hear the term loop and there's a lot of
confusion that happens with a loop. So here's a loop. This is an overhand loop because
the working end is over the standing end.
Now if you reverse that, this is known as an underhand loop because the working
end is underneath the standing end. You may also hear the term turn. That
means you're just going over an object like this you're not going completely
around you're just kind of like a bend over. That's a turn. Now if you go all the
way around an object and you create that loop there, that's called a round turn.
Another term you may hear is a bight. It's pretty much when you take one part of
the rope you touch another part of the rope. That's a bight. A bend is just simply a
bend, not a bight but a bend.